Re: SATA Debian support

[Hamid]

Hamid wrote:
I am running Debian on a SATA hard disk (my motherboard has ICH5  
and   SiI3112 chipset)
Right now I am using the SiI3112 but in order to do that I had to   
install  Debian testing
because Woody intaller did not have the support.
 I should say that the performance of my SATA under Linux is  
inferior  to  that of normal
ATA and the data rate I get from my SATA is very lousy comparing to  
ATA.
I read somewhere that this is going to get fixed in future versions  
of  the  SATA driver !


   I thought these are about to be expected (DMA on hd* disks, the  
sda  disk is SATA, the hd* are IDE)), do you get different speed on  
SATA  drives? I have intel D865PERL (ICH5).
  My SATA is configured as /dev/hde, and I do get different speeds on   
different drives since
they have manufactured in different years (technologies).

jojda:/home/erik# hdparm -t /dev/sda1

/dev/sda1:
  Timing buffered disk reads:  156 MB in  3.00 seconds =  52.00 MB/sec
  Whenever I insert my USB flash drive it is configured as /dev/sda1
I think /dev/sda* are for SCSI disk drives ! unless your SATA drive is
simulated as a SCSI disk
   yes it is

   btw scsi is used for pretty much any mass storage that is not IDE  
(usb, firewire, can be used for SATA, even used for IDE CD burners)

   anyway, my point was that SATA performs as expected on my system...

	erik
Can you tell me what you get for your data rate (MB/sec ?)

Thanks
Hamid
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